The Educational Resources Store
contains educational books and
videos for children, teens,
parents and teachers about
adolescence and growing up. The
books and videos featured on
this site cover a wide range of
topics. You will find topics
ranging from infant education to
dealing with teens with
different and sometimes
difficult situations. The books
and DVDs contain information at
all levels, including books,
DVDs, games and posters geared
to the children, teens, parents,
and teachers.

Stress affects everyone, including you.
A small amount of stress can be good,
especially if it serves as a motivating
force. However, the level of
stress in a person's life can become
unmanageable. When you have many
equally important responsibilities that
require your attention simultaneously,
you might not know what to do.
Understand the purpose of stress and
learn how to handle it correctly.
Included are some effective strategies
to help you cope with stress and provide
you with better equipment to keep your
cool the next time life threatens to
stress you out!

Anger can generate a lot of trouble for
us if we don't know how to control it
properly. If we don't manage it
correctly, it can have harmful effects
on our health and negatively affect our
relationships with other people.
In this video, you'll learn what causes
anger and understand why our bodies
react as they do when we're angry.
Successful techniques for controlling
anger are discussed, and you'll find
that in the long run, issues that
disturb you are more likely to be
resolved when you change your thinking
and communicate calmly.

This video features an exciting, fast paced quiz show game with music and colorful animation. It presents children with a wide range of behavior options to help them handle their anger. Players earn or lose points based on the quality of the solutions chosen. This presentation provides a basis for lively classroom discussion, and it's a great addition to your lending library Also included is a CD-ROM containing reproducible activities.

In this video, the story comes alive with color, sound and animation. Viewers will identify with Buddy as he learns the importance of managing his anger and the consequences of letting it get out of control. The story is followed with a lively animated "Roller Rink" exercise which consists of animated Dragons placed in realistic decision making situations where viewers are invited to choose the correct course of action. There's review questions to reinforce the lessons presented. Kits include reproducible activities as well as a presenter's guide.

Many adults that are faced with a child
or teenager's explosiveness are
uncertain of how to respond.
Should I punish him for the outburst?
Do I try to be understanding of how she
is feeling and overlook her ugly
behavior? In reality, these
children are have difficulty managing
their anger and need to be taught the
skills necessary for coping with
frustrating situations that demand
flexibility. The lack of these
cognitive skills contributes to the
angry outbursts.
Calming the Tempest
provides parents, teachers, and
caretakers with an understanding of, and
an overview on, how to teach these
skills at home and school. This
DVD features Ross Greene, Ph.D. and
Stuart Ablon, Ph.D., co-directors of the
Center for Collaborative Problem
Solving.

This book helps children to develop the
skills of anger management, and to
behave in a responsible manner for both
themselves and others. We know that
everybody gets angry, and its good for
children to learn to realize and
understand their feelings of anger,
convey them, and build skills to deal
with anger in a correct manner. They
will learn that it is normal to get
angry, but also understand that it's not
good to harm anyone physically or
verbally. Supportive and compassionate,
the book helps preschool and primary
children realize that when they cool
down and work through anger, they can
feel peaceful again.

Uncontrolled anger can have destructive
results for everyone involved.
This video defines anger, and also
explains how to help manage it by
identifying certain strategies that
allow you to control your feelings of
anger.

These two videos come alive with color, sound and animation. Children will identify with Sue as she experiences the consequences of her anger, and how she is helped by her school counselor and mom to handle her anger. The set includes two presentations of each video, one with and one without counselor comments as well as reproducible activities, a presenter's guide, and a PDF of each book. These videos are the perfect resource for a small group or classroom situation, and it's a great addition to your lending library. Also included is a CD-ROM containing reproducible activities.

This DVD contains two videos, Give and Take and Fun to Share. There are two presentations of Fun to Share, one with counselor comments. Fun to Share was developed for children in K-2, and the Give and Take is geared towards children in grades 3-4. Both videos contain related content with the story of Jason and Mark as they learn how to handle conflict. The Fun to Share video is followed by discussion questions that help to reinforce the concepts presented in the story. These videos help children develop an awareness of anger management and the role it plays in conflict resolution. Kits include reproducible activities as well as a presenter's guide.

Your favorite team is losing the biggest
game of the year, or a car cuts you off,
or for some other reason you get angry
and just want to scream!!! Rage
takes over and you've lost all control.
Find out what rage is and what
situations can elicit this extreme
response. Also, find out what to do to
stop rage before it starts.

On many school campuses, anger is a
growing problem for students.
Anger is often the most powerful emotion
for teens, and it can reveal a deep
assortment of underlying emotions.
This video covers teen anger, and shows
why anger can just be the tip of an
emotional iceberg. Students
will discover methods for recognizing
anger in all its forms and understand
how to cope with it. They learn
what leads up to anger and how to
diffuse angry or violent situations.
They'll also learn about anger and home
life, and why covering up anger is
dangerous. Students learn how to
maintain positive attitudes and how to
deal with this negative emotion in a
positive way. Teens discuss anger
in a revealing set of interviews.

The United States has been plagued with
many acts of teen violence that have
resulted in tragedy. We often
wonder what could cause seemingly normal
teenagers to act out in violence and
vandalism. Some people believe
that feelings of isolation and
alienation have fueled these acts.
By watching this video, you'll have the
opportunity to face issues dealing with
social alienation, and stop the
violence.

In this book, you discover ways to stop
your toddler's unacceptable behavior,
curb their annoying behavior, and
increase your child's good behavior.
Learn how to soothe his stormy outbursts
with amazing success and better yet,
stop these outbursts before they begin!
In one of the best parenting books of
past ten years, Dr. Karp shows that
toddlers often act in a very uncivilized
way with a primitive way of thinking and
communicating that's all their own. In
this revised edition of his parenting
classic, Dr. Karp has made his inventive
approach easier to implement than ever
before. By combining his tools of
Toddler-ese and the Fast-Food Rule with
a very effective new green light/yellow
light/red light method for molding
toddler behavior, Dr. Karp offers
parents a fast solutions for today's
busy and stressed parents. Additionally,
the new thirty-item glossary of his
parenting techniques will save you
precious time when you need to instantly
calm an uncontrollable child.

Everyone experiences feelings of anger
from time to time; It's only
human. However, anger is a
explosive emotion, and if it's not
controlled, can often result in an act
of violence. By learning how to
deal directly with our anger and knowing
how to channel it in positive ways can
help us to make the best of a bad
situation.

It has been reported that as many as
160,000 guns are carried into classrooms
by teens on any given day. At
least fifteen youths die each day in the
U.S. alone from gunshot wounds. In
this hard-hitting video, we examine this
waste of lives and their dreams of these
teens.

Anger is very often an emotion that is
expressed in extremes, either by
avoiding any show of anger or exploding
in a rage and /or violence. Both
approaches usually have a detrimental
effect on physical and emotional health.
This video explores how and why we
experience anger, and then offers
practical strategies for expressing
anger in constructive, productive ways
rather than unproductive and destructive
ways. This DVD features Dr.
Charles D. Spielberger, Director of
South Florida and Dr. Doyle Gentry,
Clinical Psychologist specializing in
the treatment of anger disorders.